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Media conference 2018: Face it!

A global migration crisis revealing the paradoxes of our moral systems, a growing group of political leaders questioning European core beliefs, and a US-president turning the world upside down – yesterday's unthinkable seems to be today’s normal.

On so many levels, we have been forced to integrate the unprecedented in our worldview over the last few years. But instead of facing the uncomfortable reality, we deny the scope of the change and stick to established, gradual mechanisms of policy making (e.g. in Germany) or retreat to national frames – two strategies equally useless. Ultimately we lack the sense of urgency needed in this historic moment.

Journalism beyond denial and ideology

How do we, journalists, live up to the challenge of facing these changes and of perceiving and confronting them? How do we – in the eye of the hurricane – find our role and provide the informational basis that society needs to adapt or react?

How do journalists in a society as deeply polarised as Poland, for example, regain the ability to get through to the real problems – maybe by leaving aside the old battles and concentrating on the ones worth fighting?

How do we understand and define our own role and positions on some of the most divisive questions currently discussed in Europe?

Over 160 journalists, activists, and academics met in Warsaw to discuss the biggest challenges that journalism faces today and look at the problems in the four Visegrad countries.

Make journalism great again! Banner-making session kicked off the n-ost media conference in Warsaw

Participating journalists

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Christina Hebel

Correspondent

Hamburg, Germany

Edda Schlager

Freelance Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Nancy Waldmann

Journalist

Franfurt Oder, Germany

Judith Langowski

Newsletter Editor

Berlin, Germany

Aigerim Toleukhanova

Freelance Journalist

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Philipp Fritz

Correspondent

Berlin and Warsaw, Germany

Frederik Rother

Author and Journalist

Köln, Germany

Daria Sukharchuk

Health Reporter

Berlin, Germany

Anita Back

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Kaja Puto

Freelance Journalist

Sosnowiec, Poland

Denis Trubetskoy

Freelance Journalist

Kyiv, Ukraine

Cassiano Gobbet

Journalist

Strasbourg, France

Sebastian Christ

Civil Expert

Berlin, Germany

Simone Brunner

Staff Journalist

Wien, Austria

Oliver Bilger

Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Ulrike Gruska

Press Officer

Berlin, Germany

Andreas Herrmann

Journalist / Medienberater

Herrnhut, Germany

Melanie Longerich

Journalist

Köln, Germany

Ingrid Brekke

Journalist

Oslo, Norway

Jan Opielka

Freelance Journalist

Gliwice, Poland

Martin Fejer

Photographer and Journalist

Budapest, Germany

Nikita Afanasjew

Author and Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Magdalena Kicińska

Editor in Chief

Warsaw

Tamina Kutscher

Freelance Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Zoltán Sipos

Journalist

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Krsto Lazarevic

Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Dirk Auer

euro|topics Correspondent Germany

Berlin, Germany

Isabelle Daniel

Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Clemens Schöll

Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Rūta Vimba

Project Manager

Berlin, Germany

Marco Fieber

Executive Director

München, Germany